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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on April 5, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl031
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received December 22, 2005
Revised February 6, 2006
Accepted February 19, 2006

TECHNICAL PAPER

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE TESTS OF THE FLUKA-RQMD SYSTEM AND EPAX 2 PREVISIONS VS. EXPERIMENTAL DATA

Alessandro Porta 1 *, Stefano Agosteo 2, Fabrizio Campi 1, and Marco Caresana 1

1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/3, I-20133 Milano, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/3, I-20133 Milano, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Alessandro Porta, E-mail: alessandro.porta{at}polimi.it


  Abstract

This work describes the tests performed on the RQMD module (available in the FLUKA code), to support nucleus-nucleus interactions above 100 MeV u-1. The RQMD-FLUKA system was used to simulate directly simple experimental set-ups to reproduce both secondary hadron production and residual nuclei distributions with ion beams ranging from 100 to 800 MeV u-1. Recent measurements of residual nuclei distributions due to interaction of light ion beams on high-purity targets were used as reference for testing the RQMD-FLUKA prediction capability. Together with FLUKA, the EPAX 2 code was considered as a further reference in fragmentation cross sections. EPAX shows a general tendency to underestimate the experimental fragmentation cross sections for the considered projectile-target combinations. EPAX underestimations are generally close to 40%, whereas FLUKA predictions are within 20% on the average.


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